Learning about Cryptologic

The Toronto-based company Cryptologic supplies online casinos with downloadable software. The company was founded in 1995 and produced its first casino after a year, and became the leader of multi-player games in 1998. Whoever uses the assorted casinos can earn bonuses on monthly deposits, cash back incentives and chance prizes too.

On opening an account a PIN and an account number is delivered by standard mail. You need the PIN for cashing out and you need the account number for obtaining cus tomer support services, so take heed not to let any of these data get lost. According to the records, Cryptologic casinos are managed very well and supply speedy and efficient cus tomer service. In fact when you begin to play you feel, due to the assistance and outstanding vocal effects, as if you have entered a real land-based casino. Nevertheless, crashing connections and pop-up fault messages are a certain disadvantage. You can choose between multi-player games or a single-person game. Furthermore, Cryptologic game rules are operated according to the Atlantic City model.

Cryptologic casinos provide a free safe cracker game where the participant accesses a nine digit safe combination. If this extraordinary combination comes up then you win one hundred and fifty dollars. One guess is permitted per day.

According to the bet placed and the game played, Cryptologic casinos offer instant cash back. View the charts to check each game’s cash back percentage.

Cryptologic’s Version Four is our subject and outlined in the following are strategic tips for playing according to the assorted rules and house edge. Identical rules generally hold for both the versions three and four. Going from eight decks in version three to one deck in version four for red dog is virtually the only difference between the two versions. Version four allows to place bets of additional cash on odds bets to round winnings in an even manner. This version also comprises a double bonus and two video poker games of the super jackpot.

The following provides you with a list of comments and criticisms concerning the games of Cryptologic’s Version Four.

Baccarat

Baccarat’s version three used eight decks of cards. Although it hasn’t yet been confirmed, it appears that this will also be in Version Four. If we assume that eight decks will indeed be used then the house edge will be 1.06 percent on the banker’s bet, while 1.24 percent is the player’s bet edge and the house edge on a tie bet is 14.36 percent.

Blackjack

The rules for playing Cryptologic’s blackjack are the same as those standard ones used by Atlantic City excluding that after already splitting you cannot split again. Here are the rules in short:

• Eight decks of cards
• Dealer has to stand on soft seventeen
• Player can double on any first two dealt cards
• Player may double after splitting
• Splitting only once is permitted
• You are not permitted to surrender
• Dealer checks blackjack hole cards

You can view the correct basic strategy as applied by these rules in the table.

Single Deck Blackjack

The following are the special rules for playing single deck blackjack:

• One deck only is used
• The dealer hits on soft seventeen
• Player can double on any first two dealt cards
• Player may double after splitting
• Splitting only once is permitted
• Surrendering is not permitted
• Dealer checks blackjack hole cards

For the above rules the house edge is 0.07 percent.

Progressive Blackjack

The rules governing progressive blackjack are the same as those for standard blackjack excluding the progressive blackjack bet. The player’s collected number of successive aces point to the payoffs for the side bet. Not like most side bets a clear arrangement is most important.

Craps

Cryptologic offers craps games with rules that are virtually the same as those for actual land-based casinos. All place and proposition bets are paid according to the standard rules. Lay and buy bets are not allowed. On the odds it is allowed to place a bet up to twice any line wager. In relation to the placed bets the double odds are always placed. This differs from the standard rules where placing odds after a don’t pass or don’t come wager is dependent on the player’s earned winnings’ sum. And finally, ensure that you put a wager in correct sums because the winning wagers are rounded off the closest dollar. To prevent any rounding off, you may put a wager with more dollars than the double odds bet needed for the aim of dividing the dollar winnings in an exact division. But don’t worry too much because a new feature - an alert pop up box gives you a warning that rounding down is about to happen.

Caribbean Poker

This game Caribbean Poker is also known as Caribbean Stud Poker and differs a little from the standard rules. It differs by the royal flush and instead of paying one hundred to one it pays two hundred to one. On applying maximum strategy the house edge falls from 5.22 percent to 5.21 percent. Version four is innovative in its progressive side bet. On each flush the side wager pays fifty dollars, for a full house one hundred dollars and for four of a kind – five hundred dollars. Straights and royal flushes pay you according to the meter’s standard ten percent and hundred percent accordingly. To break even on the side wager you have to reach $218, 047.37 on the meter.

Keno

Cryptologic Keno is just a generous as any actual concrete casino and pays out between seventy one percent and seventy five percent. You can review the chart for anticipated payoffs by selected spots.

Let it Ride

Cryptologic also applies the regular rulings for Let it Ride. Nevertheless, in comparison to Atlantic City, it brings in the a side wager of one dollar. 3.51 percent is the house edge while the side wager edge is 22.61 percent.

Pai Gow Poker

Cryptologic adheres to the standard rules for the game of Pai Gow Poker. Assuming that the dealer and player adhere to the house’s standard’s system the dealer regularly acts as the banker giving a house edge of 2.86 percentage. Apparently Cryptologic adheres to the Atlantic City standard rules, although it’s been stated that Claridge uses another house method than that which Trump Plaza uses.

Pontoon

Only via Cryptologic and Real Time can you play this type of blackjack. There are players who claim that when playing the Cryptologic casinos the player has to stand on hitting soft twenty one. Nevertheless not everybody agrees with this claim. In this game 0.17 percent is the house edge. Here you have to play by the same rules of Real Time casinos.

Red Dog

In Cryptologic’s Red Dog game the house edge is 3.16 percent. The rules here are standard and the game is played using one deck of cards.

Roulette

Three versions are available for you to choose from:

American Roulette : Two zeros are available in this version. You get back your even money bet if the ball falls in a zero-zero or zero. The house edge is 2.63 percent on even money bets and 5.26 percent is the house edge on all other wagers.

European Roulette : On zero is available in this version. 2.70 percent is the house edge on all wagers.

European VIP Roulette : One zero only is available in this version. You receive back half of even money bets if the ball lands in a zero. 1.35 percent is the house edge on even money bets, while the house edge on all other bets is 2.70 percent.

Slots

The two casinos which offer a list of actual returns for all their games played online are the Inter Casino and Sands of the Caribbean. At the Sands of the Caribbean during the course of one year from September 2000 to August 2001, 93.17 percent was the average monthly return. During the half year from January 2001 to end of July 2001, the Inter Casino showed a 95.65 percent average monthly return.

Solitaire

This is the standard Klondike version taken from the Windows game menu. You have available two solitaire versions. In the Draw One version, while drawing one card at a time, the player goes through the tableau only once. In the version of Draw Three, while the player is permitted to draw three cards at once he or she can go through the tableau three times.

The player is permitted to bet from two cents up to one dollar per card, while the total bet stretches from 1.04 dollars up to fifty dollars. In exchange for each card the player received five times that amount in the bet for each card the player shifts to the base. The player needs to take at least eleven cards in order that the game be profitable. We would be grateful to receive any information concerning the present unknown house advantage.

Super Fun 21

You can see all the necessary rules and strategies in the section Super Fun 21. 0.94 is the house edge in this game and is worth noting.

Three Card Poker

For both the Pairplus and the Ante full payment tables are utilized. For Pairplus, a four, six, thirty and forty pay table the house edge is 2.32 percent. A one, four and five pay table is for the Ante bonus while the house edge is 3.37 percent. If you require any further information please see the Three Card Poker section.

Video Poker

Assuming you are using a fool-proof strategy, view the expected returns on the available table for Cryptologic’s video poker games.

You can play Super Jackpot with a progressive version of jacks or better. Except for the royal flush progressive you get a 97.30 percent payoff. The pay tables are a regular five and eight where the eight is for a full house and the five is for a flush. For the player playing a five and eight strategy the expected return is 95.31 percent, and for every thousand coins in the meter there is an additional 0.50 percent. When playing a five and eight strategy to break even, the meter needs to fill up with nine thousand, four hundred and twenty seven coins.

The expected return tables for any game except for the Super Jackpot game are contained in the specified pay tables and charts put out for Cryptologic. The usefulness of these tables is based on the assumption that you use the best strategy. It’s worth keeping in mind that a cashback of 0.1 percent is paid out by Cryptologic also. This indicates that you can expect a double bonus for over a hundred percent return.

Video Poker

Cryptologic has come out with a completely new game, and it is called Bonus Video Poker. It is based on the standard video poker game but it works on three, five or ten play. It differs from the original video poker in that rather than discarding a card from the deck it returns the card to the deck. Depending on the sort of game, the player gets a bonus; on having a card returned on the draw which had been discarded beforehand on the deal. The bonus in jacks or better is sixteen percent of the bet.